Sara Rafsky

Sara Rafsky is research associate in CPJ's Americas program. A freelance journalist in South America and Southeast Asia, she was awarded a 2008 Fulbright Grant to research photojournalism and the Colombian armed conflict.

2011

As the Occupy movement has spread beyond Wall
Street, at least seven U.S. journalists have been detained and one television
crew attacked by U.S. law enforcement officers during turbulent encounters between police and protesters. Occupy demonstrators have attacked journalists in two other instances, including an assault this week in Oakland, Calif., that left a cameraman with a concussion.

A reporter's right to protect confidential sources, a topic
of debate both in the U.S. and internationally, will undergo another round of
legal scrutiny after federal prosecutors formally appealed a decision shielding
journalist James Risen's sources in a CIA leak case.

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María Elizabeth Macías Castro's killers made sure their
actions were understood. In a macabre, carefully orchestrated mise-en-scene,
they placed her body in front of a poster with the ominous note. Nearby they
left a computer keyboard, with a pair of headphones on her decapitated head.

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"Sir, you are lying and a liar." With these
words, uttered before an audience of around 150 people, Ecuadoran President
Rafael Correa dispelled any doubt as to whether he might cool his explosive
rhetoric in the face of criticism. His harsh words came in response to a critical question posed by CPJ's senior coordinator for the
Americas, Carlos Lauría, after a speech on Friday hosted by the World Leaders
Forum at Columbia University in New York.